Named Entity Results, Tybee Island (Georgia, United States)

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s, seven and a half feet thick, rose twenty-five feet above high water, mounting one tier of guns in casemates and one in barbette.
The gorge face was covered by a demi-lune of good relief, arranged for one tier of guns in barbette, and was also provided with a ditch.
The marshy formation, Cockspur island, on which Pulaski stood, was surrounded by broad channels of deep water, and the only near approach to it, on ground of tolerable firmness, was along a narrow strip of shifting sand on Tybee island.
The people of Savannah, familiar with the situation, thought they were menaced by a danger as great as that of Sumter to Charleston; that even a few days' delay might permit this isolated fort to be made effective in closing the main seaport of Georgia, and that once strongly manned, it would be impossible to reduce it with ordnance such as could soon be obtained by the State.
Capt. William H. C. Whiting, of the United States army engineers, who had an office in Savannah at that time

d gun should be turned over to Lawton.
At this time the latter had an aggregate present of about 3,000 men, at sixteen posts, the most important of which were Tybee island, Brunswick, Camp Lawton, Savannah, Fort Pulaski, Sapello island and Fort Screven.
On October 26th the military department of Georgia was created, and General on of the whole coast line except the entrance to Savannah harbor.
These scouting vessels did not venture to attack Fort Pulaski, but landed a force of men on Tybee island on the 24th of November, after shelling the martello tower and battery, which had been abandoned some two weeks before.
Captain Read, with a detachment of hise, completed about Christmas, was cut loose by a traitor and floated down unlighted to Tybee beach, the Federal position.
The main object of the expedition to Tybee island was to escort Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, chief engineer of the Federal corps at Hilton Head.
His purpose was to prepare batteries for the reduction of Fort Pula

trated the chamber.
Such was the condition of affairs when Colonel Olmstead called a council of officers in a casemate; and without a dissenting voice they acquiesced in the necessity of a capitulation, in order to save the garrison from utter destruction by an explosion, which was momentarily threatened.
Accordingly, at 2 o'clock p. m. the men were called from the guns and the flag was lowered.
Early in the day Colonel Olmstead had no doubt of his ability to silence every battery on Tybee island, and to this end he determined that when night came and the enemy's fire slackened, he would change the position of all his heavy guns, so as to bring them to bear on the enemy.
As the day progressed, however, his situation became desperate.
Every man did his duty with aladrity, and there being few guns that bore on the enemy, there was a continued contest as to who should man them.
When volunteers were called for to perform any laborious duty, there was a rush of men from every compan